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Studies of interpopulation differences in non-metric morphological characters (also termed “discrete” and “epigenetic”) of the skeleton raise problems which are both biological and statistical.

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Bocquet-Appel, J.P. (1984). Biological Evolution and History in 19th Century Portugal. In: Van Vark, G.N., Howells, W.W. (eds) Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6357-3_18

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